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Androgyny in Schizophrenics and their Relatives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

F. D. Kelsey
F. D. Kelsey*
Affiliation:
Claybury Hospital, Woodford Bridge, Woodford Green, Essex, and Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, Middlesex
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Androgyny is an expression of relative masculinity and femininity in body-build. Tanner (1962) states “Androgyny can be perhaps best measured by means of scales constructed so as to give the best discrimination between men and women, and the simplest of such scales measures a masculinity score as 3 Biacromial—1 Bi-iliac diameter. This score gives men a mean of around ninety-three units with a standard deviation of about five, and women a mean of about seventy-eight with a similar standard deviation”.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 481 , December 1965 , pp. 1159 - 1164
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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